4 DAYS UNTIL THE WEDDING.

WOW. REALLY?! Time has flown by that FAST?!


I am so excited, confused, happy, in love, and stressed! This has been so surreal and time has gone by so fast. Its apparent since I haven't updated my blog that much. WHOOPS.

We're just assembling all the centerpieces, making sure that my dress is in order, and then off we go!

DOWN TO THE WIRE!

Not kidding, we have 31 days left before we are married! Hallelujah! I really cannot believe how much goes into a wedding and I thought we were skimming. So for those of you out there who had elaborate weddings, KUDOS TO YOU. We are truly blessed however to know people who love us so much and have helped us get through the planning and assisted us with great accommodations to the wedding. I'm so excited!!

We just had our wedding shower, thanks to the Smarts :) It was a blast!! Fiesta themed and tequila galore :) It was so fun to celebrate with such great friends. There will be pictures posted later :)

Just celebrated Collin's 15th. Yes, 15th! Logan just finished a tournament out in Olympia this past weekend. Dean just had his senior prom at the EMP. Maddy and Devin are just along for the ride. Just kidding. They support their family with open arms and we are blessed to have such great kiddos. But really, we have time to plan for a wedding in all this madness?....
I GUESS SO.

46 Days to go!

In 46 days I will be Mrs.Daniel Fewkes! Amazing! Wow, time sure has flown by, but I have mentioned that more than once in this blog. Its amazing how life happens and all of a sudden we are here! I can't believe that it's been 7 months since he asked me to be his wife.

In recent events we have been busy with Logan's select baseball team, Maddy and Collin's play, volunteering for Devin's school, prepping for Dean's graduation and getting him through senior year and Collin's soccer team. In all that we still managed to squeeze out a few things for family time :) Not to mention a great gathering for Easter.

So with all that said, I still need to finalize the centerpiece decorations, order the table linens, find a photographer and get the music lined up. Its really all just small stuff but its small stuff that matters! Oh, not to mention finalize flowers, ring bearer accessories, cake, and decorations for the reception hall. Oi vey! It'll all come together though. The first bridal shower will be held in two weekends. I am extremely excited to get together with some good friends and celebrate! This will serve as a really late engagement party as well since we didn't really hold one. Shortly after that, a weekend after the bridal shower, we will have my bachelorette party in downtown Seattle. Oh gosh, I can only see it now. Someone will be going to jail! Just kidding.

65 days to go!!

65 days to go?! Holy cow! Where did the time fly by?! We are truly getting more and more excited as it gets closer. I have all the little details now to close in. We are sending out the invites this friday, yay! I need to finalize tablecloths, videographer, corsages, and bouquets. Pretty much everything else is set. I can't believe it! Its all coming so fast. We have been so busy lately, it would be nice to just sit down and enjoy each others company for a bit. Before you know it, it'll be the parties, picking up the dress from the cleaners, sticking my jazzy shoes on and walking down the aisle saying our "I dos." WOW.

We get to play hair and makeup this coming week with a couple of the girls. I'm excited about that. I'm more excited to see how my bridesmaids will look on my day. Gorgeous of course. Wine, yummy food and getting gussied up....can't get any better than that with a whole bunch of girlfriends!

I've been contemplating on what our bouquets should look like. I'm thinking the ladies will have something simple like white tulips...

beautiful....

And mine might look something like this...

...but with white tulips instead of phaleonopsis.

beauty on a wedding day...

I am trying to figure out exactly what I want to have done to my hair on the day of the wedding as vain as that sounds :) Every lady wants a perfect wedding and I hope I can achieve at least the feeling of it..

here are a few ideas:

I love the volume on the top...

This one has a little more of a oomph...love it

elegant, yet sophisticated. 

I've been wearing something pretty heavy on my mind and no matter how hard I try to sidetrack myself, I am constantly reminded of how much this wonderful girl's sudden death has reminded me of life, especially with all the hecticness around my life involving wedding, kiddos, employment status and such.... 

This weekend is a pretty relaxing yet sad one. Last week, we had lost a beautiful girl in the community, Sabrina Roberts, to a heart condition. She was beautiful, talented and loved by family and peers. Her memorial service will be tomorrow and due to the sudden notice of her being gone, it really has reflected upon me how important everyday is and how fragile life can be. Also how fast it can leave as well. Love your family, hug your friends and don't ever go one day without saying I love you...

RIP Sabrina Roberts <3

WOW I'm bad!

I use this blog to update on the wedding/family but we are so busy that I have no time to ever do it! I promise...I'll be better about it especially since now we are just tying loose ends of the wedding. I am soon off to mail the wedding invitations already! Wowza. Wedding is approaching though. Just about three months away! So exciting! Its time to finalize the table cloths, seating, dress alterations, pickup shoes, get the groom's and groomsmen clothes picked out, and all the table decorations. So I guess we have a few things left to do but we have the majority of all of it done! Venue, catering, photographer, dress, bridesmaids dresses, flowers, and music are all done! This is going to be so much fun! Our engagement shoot will be done next week finally with Randi Swanson! She is amazing and I highly recommend her and her work! We will be shooting at Pike Place Market with the whole family...

 I love our city :)

We just had an 18th birthday party with Dean. Dan, I and the kids managed to throw a quick surprise party for Dean at the last minute and had the cousins on my mom's side come out. Some of them Dean hadn't seen in many years so it was a nice reunion :)

We're crazy (and this isn't all of us hehe)

moving along...

Just a few pictures of what we have made so far at wedding craft party #1! Thank you to all who came and attended!!

the beginning of all the men's boutineers.

Madeline and Alicia modeling off the earrings I made for them (and looking cute!)

9 of the bridesmaids are wearing these earrings

kind of blurry,but 2 others are wearing these!

CJ and Jessica getting crafty with the boutineers!

kinda bright but these are the final boutineers! they have really cute green/yellow ribbon and cute yellow flowers!

Marla came out from Yakima! I miss her and love her so much!

Sonja, Dean, Amber and Marla worked doing tissue flowers that they worked hard on! (p.s. the date on the picture is wrong lol)

Brianna doing karaoke, we couldn't resist!

Sorry Alicia,I had to throw in this one :)